Improvement in suspender-clasps



F. ECKERMANN. SUSPENDER-CLASPS.

No. 193,811. Patented Aug. 7, 1877.

PLFETERS. PHDTO-I-ITHOGKAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDERIOH EGKERMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT lN' SUSPENDER-CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,811, dated August'7, 1877 application filed May 25,4871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDERIOH ECKER- MANN, of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented an 1111- proved Suspender-Olasp, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a side view of my improved suspender-clasp, showing it opened. Fig. 2 is a face view of the same, showing it closed. Fig. ,3 is a side view of the same, showing it closed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to a new attachment to suspenders and analogous devices for fastening the same to garments or fabrics without the use of buttons, that were heretofore required.

The invention consists in constructing clasp of two plates, which are provided with projecting pins, and combined with a slotted yoke-shaped lever for closing the same upon the fabric, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, the letters a and b represent the two plates of which the body A of my improved clasp is constructed. These plates are, at their upper ends, connected together, either by a hinge or a spring connection, so that their lower ends may be free to be opened apart, as in Fig. 1, and closed, as in Fig. 3. A loop, d, may be formed at the joined end of the said two plates, to permit their attachment to a suspender-strap or equivalent device. From the edges of the plates at b project, in opposite directions, four pins, 6 e fftwo from one of said plates a, and two from the other, 12. B is ayoke-shaped lever or clamp, with slotted ends. Through eachof its long but narrow end slots are fitted two of the pins 6 f, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Now, when the lever B is extended at about right angles to the body A, as in Fig. l, the

, pins ef can separate in the long slot, and the clasp is opened; but when the yoke B is folded against the body A, as in Figs. 2 and 3, the pins 0 f are drawn together in the narrow slot,-and the clasp is closed against and secured to any fabric that may have been introduced between the plates 01. and b.

To cause the plates at b to take a firm hold of the fabric, their inner faces may be roughened or serrated, as indicated.

I claim as my invention- The clasp composed of the plates to 1), pins 0 f, and slotted yoke B, substantially as herein shown and described.

The foregoing description of my invention signed by me this 24th day ot'May, 1877.

FRIEDER. EGKERMANN.

Witnesses ERNEST G. WEBB, F. v. BRIESEN. 

